The word is getting out about N&P’s new sister shop at Voyager!
REFINERY 29 – Needles And Pens Launches A Sister Shop In Voyager!
Fecal Face.com – Hooray for our friends at Needles & Pens

at both the 16th Street location and the new Valencia St. spot at Voyager. See you at BOTH spots on Monday. MERRY NEW YEAR FOLKS!

We’ve got some exciting news to share, As of today Needles & Pens has opened a permanent satellite shop at 365 Valencia Street inside Voyager (right next to Four Barrel Coffee)! We’re pleased as punch, N&P has inherited the beautiful Jay Nelson Submarine from our friends over at Mollusk Surf Shop and have set up shop inside of it.

Make sure to stop by, it’s OFFICIALLY OPEN TODAY and every day 12-7pm. We’ll be having an official grand opening in the next couple of weeks so stay tuned!

“Extra! Extra! Needles & Pens to keep extended holiday hours this week due to popular yuletide demand!”

…It’s true, Needles & Pens will BE OPEN 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. EVERYDAY this week.

PS – Andrew made a toe-tappin’ – foot stompin’ playlist for the BOLD ITALIC. Check it out here.

* Hear Ye! Hear Ye! * *
This weekend N&P we will be open EXTENDED HOURS on both
SATURDAY 12/17 + SUNDAY 12/18
—> 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. <---
COME & Get it!
(This is theee LAST weekend before xmas – gasp!)

Some images from Monica Canilao & Kyle Ranson’s “The More We Wander” show have been put up on our Flickr Page. Take a gander and get in touch about sales inquiries. If you’d like to see larger, more detailed images just holler, we’d be happy to send them your way! CLICK HERE TO VIEW

Gallery view of The More We Wander

In August of 2011, Monica Canilao and Kyle Ranson traveled to Malmö Sweden to create a collaborative show entitled THE MORE WE WANDER at the renowned KRETS Gallery. The work produced for the show (much of it made on location in Sweden) has never been exhibited in the U.S. Please join us for the “home-coming” of their works and for what will undoubtedly be an incredible , multi-layered, multi-media, installation of mind-bending folksy beauty. Don’t take our word for it, see photos of Kyle and Monica’s experience generated for the THE MORE WE WANDER show in Sweden.

IN ADDITION to the visual artwork, opening night will be accompanied by a musical performance with,

TOM GREENWOOD
(JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER)
+
STRAWBERRY SMOG
(KYLE RANSON & GARY WERTZ)

* The More We Wander will be on display through February 4, 2012

—> FACEBOOK EVENT INFO

! WOODSBORO / ART SHOW / ROCK SHOW !

On Saturday November 12 (730-9:00 pm),
WOODSBORO will be playing and releasing it’s new 7″ “POCKET COMB” at N&P. The record is limited to 100 copies and each sleeve will be hand-made by an individual artist/on display in our gallery, and sold for $25 each.

Sleeves have been made by these fine folks:
Audra Knutson, Ed Jurken, Sara Thurston, Laurence Wilson, Scott Falkowski, Inbar Kishoni, Sharon Gatliffe, Grant Lavalley, Serena Mitnik-Miller, David Kasprzak, Greer McGettrick, Andrew Connors, Kirsten Knick, Natalie Lunney, Primo Pitmo, Michael McConnell, Sidnea D’amico, Johnny Abrahams, Doug Spencer, Paul Garcia, Jacqueline Pachak, Eric Corrigan, Meghan Meehan, Ellen McCoy, Alex Wilson, Dave Gardner, Odessa Fryxell, Jon Calvert, Anna Carpenter, Tara Barnes, Chrys Nodal, Lizzy McGinn, Alfonso Kellenberger, Erin Hurley, Jennifer Melcon, Wymond Miles, Jaime Jennings, Matthew Brown, Seble Bissrat, Jacqui Ko, Kim Kelly, Will Ivy, Zoe Mogannam, Katie Davis, Olive Mogannam, Aaron Rodriguez, Alex DeWall, Vanessa Gonzales, Em Gift, Imin Yeh, Hayden Elizabeth Shieble, Chili Montes, Andrew Martin Scott, Alison Davis, Lauren Klein, Cody Frost, Karoline Hatch, Moses Montalvo, and more!

WOODSBORO is Moses Montalvo, Greer McGrettrick, Wymond Miles, and Dillon Balmaceda.

* The POCKET COMB covers will be on display in the gallery at N&P until December 4th.

—> FACEBOOK event INFO <—

Ephameron posted up some photos on Facebook from last night’s opening reception for BEYOND THE EMPTY. Check ‘em out here.

Opening Tonight, September 9th (7-9:30pm),


BEYOND THE EMPTY
An international eight person group show curated by Belgium’s EPHAMERON, and featuring the works of:
ANA ALBERO (Spain), ATSUKO ISHII (Japan), EPHAMERON (Belgium), GEMMA CORRELL (UK), LOUIS REITH (Netherlands), PAUL PAETZEL (Germany), TILL HAFENBRAK (Germany) WARD ZWART (Belgium)

The exhibition will be also accompanied by a limited edition catalog/zine designed by the artists. Ephameron will be in attendance!

Plus, musical performance by local gallery rockers, WOMAN (featuring Amy Browne & Michelle Bock) *AND* local shoe gaze jammers – GLOWING CAT EYES

*On display through November 5th, 2011

We’ll be back to our regular ole’ normal hours on Tuesday. See you then.

Coming September 9th to Needles & Pens,


BEYOND THE EMPTY
An international eight person group show curated by Belgium’s EPHAMERON, and featuring the works of:
ANA ALBERO (Spain), ATSUKO ISHII (Japan), EPHAMERON (Belgium), GEMMA CORRELL (UK), LOUIS REITH (Netherlands), PAUL PAETZEL (Germany), TILL HAFENBRAK (Germany) WARD ZWART (Belgium)

The exhibition will be also accompanied by a limited edition catalog/zine designed by the artists. Ephameron will be in attendance!
Plus, musical performance by local gallery rockers, WOMAN (featuring Amy Browne & Michelle Bock)

*On display through November 5th, 2011

We’ve been voted amongst the “70 Best Businesses in California” by the nice folks at Japan’s BRUTUS Magazine! Amazing! Thanks so much Japan, we love you!

It’s almost time for the 2011 New York Art Book Fair! N&P will be there,come by and say hello!

Anders Nilsen‘s Pictures of Birds Solo Show
& Big Questions signing – it was truly a great night.
If you missed out on the opening, make sure to come down and see it in person. Also, for the out-of-towners, we’ll have all of the work available for purchase/viewing online in the next week or so. In the mean time, check out the pics for Anders’ blog check

Anders Nilsen’s Pictures of Birds
Anders Nilsen’s photographing his show @ N&P
Anders Nilsen’s Big Questions slide show opening night
Opening night crowd for Anders Nilsen’s Pictures of Birds show

Join us tomorrow night,
Tuesday July 26 from 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
for
ANDERS NILSEN‘s
PICTURES of BIRDS
a solo art exhibition,book release/signing.
featuring original pages, scraps, cover paintings and stray panels from his epic comic book fable Big Questions (Drawn & Quarterly)

Nilsen is is going on a book tour for his recently completed the 600+ page masterwork Big Questions (Drawn & Quarterly). And lucky for us, his San Francisco stop at Needles & Pens will also include an art show. Nilsen will be putting up original works in the gallery – his only gallery exhibition of the entire tour! In addition, he will be projecting a slide show and signing copies of his new book!

Wednesday July 20, 7-10 p.m. at N&P -
Danielle de Picciotto – Readings from THE BEAUTY OF TRANSGRESSION with live electronic soundscapes by Alexander Hacke of the legendary German Band Einstürzende Neubauten.

More Info/Event Page on Facebook

Tuesday July 26, 7-10 p.m. at N&P -
Anders Nilsen‘s BIG QUESTIONS signing + art show

Come out to see the tour that’s more than ten years in the making! That’s right, folks, the brilliant (and handsome…) Anders Nilsen is going on tour for 600+ page masterwork Big Questions! And for his stop at N&P he’ll also be putting up some original works in the gallery. Not to be missed!
More Info/Event Page on Facebook

This is one of the best put together zine projects that I’ve seen in a long time:

Let’s Get Lost #1 / Freight Train Diary / Freight Train Field Recordings
CD and Fanzine Split by Victoria Yee Howe

$18.00

Nearly ten years of freight hopping field recordings and rail songs from across the USA and Canada, dubbed off of old mini-disc tapes and Zoom H2 flash sticks, and lovingly collected on one limited edition CD. The audio veers between spooky post-industrial ambiance and death metal – this is what hopping trains sounds like. For the rail fan who thinks they have everything and the audio completist in all of us!

The fanzine includes 72 pages of train hopping stories interspersed with journal entries, retrospective flashbacks, photo fold-outs and vintage

MONSTER CHILDREN #31

$9.00

Monster Children #31!
Featuring, (the photography of) Dennis Hopper, David Carson, Thomas Campbell, Alex Kopps, Craig Anderson, Alex Olson and Mark Penxa.
“We’ve rightly dedicated 15 pages to one of the biggest proponents of contemporary art and photography in this issue. It’s been a while since we’ve done such a large feature, but a man of this significance deserves the page space. As well as all the incredible photography, adjoining stories from the man himself plus Andy Warhol, Tony Shafrazi and Aaron Rose sit within this feature in Issue 31. We talk to seminal designer David Carson, about collaboration, the past, the future and surfing. We take a surf trip to Morocco with an eclectic bunch – Knost and Kopps, Thomas Campbell, Dan Malloy, Craig Anderson and Ryan Burch. Alex Olson gets his whine on, we take a tour through American malls circa 1989, talk to Justin Townes-Earle about crack addiction and being the son of Steve Earle, and give you all the usual tits and bits n’ pieces.”